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Fashion Week Launch Parties & Events

Your essential Fashion Week Party guide...

1. Fashion Rocks @ Radio City Music Hall (Sept. 5, 8 p.m.) Beyoncé, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Mariah Carey, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. - For the chance of seeing Anna Wintour get her groove on.

2. Agent Provocateur/Lingerie Miami Cocktail Party @ Downtown Cipriani (Sept. 6, 7–9 p.m.) Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kate Moss, Daisy Lowe: In lingerie.

3. Intermix's Fifteenth-Anniversary Party @ The Bowery Hotel (Sept. 6, 9 p.m.) DVF, Proenza Schouler, the Olsens, and more are all hitting the private dinner at the Bowery beforehand.

4. Alexander Wang After-Party @ Cortlandt Alley (Sept. 6, 10 p.m.) Rumored to have a top-secret musical guest.

5. Rosa Cha After-Party @ 1Oak (Sept. 6, 10 p.m.) Vogue is co-hosting so expect designers, editors and lots of models.

6. Calvin Klein's 40th-Anniversary Party @ The High Line (Sept. 7, 8 p.m.) Eva Mendes.

7. William Rast After-Party @ Roseland (Sept. 7, 9 p.m. (after fashion show) Justin Timberlake

8. L'Uomo Vogue Party @ Barneys (Sept. 7, 6–8 p.m.) All the international Vogue editors in one room!

9. Purple Magazine Party @ Charles (Sept. 7 Night) Purple is the coolest fashion magazine out. Plus, current cover girl Kate Moss may stop by.

10. Chanel/Vogue Party @ UNKNOWN (Sept. 10, 7:30) Karl! Keira Knightley! It's for the premiere of Knightley's flick The Duchess. Hosted by Karl.

Bryant Park (Sept. 5-12) If you can’t get enough, (or can’t get in) just lurk around the tents at Bryant Park.

image by Patrick McMullan
events via NYMag

Nice Rack!

New York City curbs have been adorned with new bicycle racks, designed by musician and biking enthusiast, David Byrne. The city's Department of Transportation and one of the most celebrated art galleries, PaceWildenstein, have partnered up in an effort to promote bicycling and lower the city's carbon footprint. NYC has been making an effort to go green, and one way is via Summer Streets program, where they "close off a 6.9-mile north-south route for six hours on three consecutive Saturdays. Otherwise, it's pretty dangerous on the bike around the city among high foot and car traffic. For 11 months, these bike racks will stay with us in the city, in an attempt to encourage exercise, promote biking and conserve energy. After the year, David Byrne hopes they can be sold as works of art.

“By bringing attractive yet functional sculptures to our streets, we are elevating the profile of cycling, and we believe that more and more people will begin to think about cycling as a mode of transportation, and not just a mode of recreation,” Ms. Sadik-Khan said in a statement. “Regular bike riders have an eagle eye for our current bike racks but these nine installations will capture the attention of all New Yorkers.”

“It was important to me that these new racks be the same thickness and material as the existing racks—to help identify them as practical bike racks and not just modern art,” Mr. Byrne said. “The locations about as perfect as one could imagine — Wall Street for the dollar sign and Bergdorf’s for the giant high heel!”

Locations are in order of the photos starting top left:

The MoMA: South side of West 54th Street, east of the Avenue of the Americas

The Olde Times Square: South side of West 44th Street, west of Seventh Avenue

The Villager: In front of 536 La Guardia Place, between West Third and Bleecker Streets

The Coffee Cup: West side of Amsterdam Avenue, between West 110th and 111th Streets

The Wall Street: North side of 82 Wall Street, west of Water Street

The Ladies’ Mile: West side of Fifth Avenue, north of 57th Street (in front of Bergdorf’s)

The Hipster: West side of Bedford Avenue, near North Sixth Street, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

The Chelsea: In front of 530 West 25th Street, east of 11th Avenue (in front of PaceWildenstein Gallery)

The Jersey: Northwest corner of Ninth Avenue and 39th Street, near the Lincoln Tunnel

via NYTimes

Make Mondays Happy by 1/2 Priced Drinks

The Volstead will host Drink Tastings at 1/2 off all drinks each Monday from 6:30-8:30.

What: The Volstead - 1/2 priced drinks
When: Every Monday
Where: 125 East 54th Street (between Lexington & Park Avenues), thevolstead.com

NEWS.i.e. Starbucks Brewing a Surprise for April 8th

TREND.i.e - Elie Tahari Sale - up to 80% off

Anyone who has a 9-5 job can benefit from this amazing sale. Their corporate design is very classy, yet not too harsh, and extends between the entry level to CEO. So go ahead and don't feel guilty about loading up at this sale, look at it as an investment for your career, an advancing stepping point, or as as if it all can be expensed.

What: Up to 80% off corporate casual...
When: Tuesday, April 1st through Saturday, April 5th
Where: 510 Fifth Ave @ 43rd st. (212-398-2622)

via racked

T.P. lines the walls of the Subway

Maybe because it's so smelly in the subway, Cottonelle's advertising has branched out to line the walls of the subways. As a commuter myself, I vouch for the fact that subway advertising is one things you tend to look at, just to avoid the angry and exhausted morning faces of other commuters. According to the photographer of the advertising campaign, Will Femia, "This car on the S train was done entirely, walls and all, to look like it was lined with toilet paper. Ick." I only hope no one actually takes it literally and tries to test it out...

via racked

Late Night Munchy Delivery

Remember the late night studying in college and wishing for a munchy delivery service? Well, some smart guys from UPenn made that concept into a franchise business, and now we can receive deliveries all day and night in this huge campus we call NYC. If you're itching to become an entrepreneur during those late night inspirations, invest in the late night cookie man...

Insomnia Cookies
877 63-COOKIE to order

NEWS.i.e.Duane Reade Management Can't Spell

The sign posted on Duane Reade's 14th and 1st Ave location for Easter schedule, is the effort of their best employees, also known as management. "Yes, folks… these are the people you trust to fill your prescriptions. Be afraid. Be very afraid."

via East Village Idiot

Jersey City: the 6th Borough of NYC

Being a city girl at heart, I never thought I would leave Manhattan once I got there. Well, overpriced shoe box apartments, carrying the dirt into my apt off those filthy streets, lack of closet space, boyfriend's car vandalized to pieces, among many other things, all really made me look at the big picture. So I started looking across the Hudson River. The harbor side of Jersey started to better and better and according to mapquest was just 1 mile away.

I started to explore something affordable in Hoboken and Edgewater, but being that these are the hottest spots of NJ's coast line, I decided, not yet. Mom and I went browsing one day with our hearts set on something clean in Jersey City. I failed to notice how huge it was, and so we circled the car within a cute 2 block radius, right next to the light rail, just to make the commute bearable. Then finding a rent-control, 1000 sq ft loft with NYC views and a walk in close, truly broke the deal and boyfriend, his vandalized car and myself moved into what's now considered the 6th borough of NYC. So you see, you can take the girl out of the city, but you can't take the city away from the girl.

Here's the AM article capturing the best of JC.

Would love to hear your story if you battled the same scenario...

Operation V-Day cont'd

New York City can be a very giving place, when you know the ins and outs and whens and wheres. Whether you're single and hating the thought of Valentine's Day, or taken and excited to share it with your honey, enjoy these spots that offer something fun and different...

Tre (173 Ludlow St., between Houston and Stanton streets, 212-353-3353) is offering a free, one-hour, all-you-can-drink Champagne pour for any couple dining there that evening.

BarFry (50 Carmine St. at Bedford Street, 212-929-5050) is giving dining couples goodie bags to take home with them in hopes of inspiring romance. Items in the bag include chocolate-covered strawberries, white chocolate sauce in tiny squeeze bottles, and "red hot" whipped cream, flavored with cinnamon and chili.

The Sunburnt Cow (137 Avenue C, between 8th and 9th streets, 212-529-0005) is throwing an anti-Valentine's Day singles party featuring all-you-can-drink beer and wine —in addition to holiday drink specials — for $25. Enjoy a meal there, including appetizer, main course, and dessert for $16.

Borough Food & Drink (12 E. 22nd St., between Broadway and Park Avenue South , 212-260-0103) has also declared February 14 to be singles night, and guests who buy a drink for a stranger will get a free "courage shot."

Silverleaf Tavern (43 E. 38th St. at Park Avenue, 212-972-2550) is offering special items for singles, including angry lobster, unrequited ribs, and lonely lox.

(as reported by the Sun)